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Author | : Jackie Robinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 79 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Machine quilting |
ISBN | : 9781885156136 |
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Frank Lloyd Wright's art glass designs (1900-1923) inspired these quilts. Take a tour with Jackie Robinson as she guides you through construction of your own "Wright window" in fabric using machine piecing methods. Directions are included for eighteen projects.
Author | : Heritage Quilt Project of New Jersey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : |
Download New Jersey Quilts 1777 to 1950 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Doreen Ehrlich |
Publisher | : Running Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Decoration and ornament, Architectural |
ISBN | : 9780762408818 |
Download Frank Lloyd Wright Glass Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Providing a chronological, pictorial survey of the use of glass in each documented building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, this comprehensive book traces the architect's innovate use of art glass in windows, lighting, interior decor, furnishings, and his famed Luxifer prisms. 175 full-color and b&w photos.
Author | : Gerald E. Roy |
Publisher | : American Quilter's Society |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Patchwork |
ISBN | : 9781574327021 |
Download Quilts by Paul D. Pilgrim Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Inspired by the quilts in this publication, anyone will be able to turn that stack of Grandmother's unfinished blocks or the patchwork bits and pieces rescued from a flea market into a stunning quilt. This book features 20 full-color, full-page photographs of quilts by Paul D. Pilgrim that blend old blocks and pieces with new fabrics, and it also gives tips on working effectively with these remnants of the past. Commentary by Paul D. Pilgrim and author Gerald E. Roy sheds light on the inspiration for each quilt, and diagrams identify block designs and fabric and block dates, making this book a good tool for historical identification. This publication is sure to result in the rescuing of many an 'orphan' block - and the making of many a beautiful quilt.
Author | : Carla Lind |
Publisher | : Pomegranate Communications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Lost architecture |
ISBN | : 9780764945960 |
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This redesigned and updated version of the original 1996 edition is the only book that examines comprehensively Frank Lloyd Wright buildings that have been destroyed by natural disasters or human decisions.
Author | : Joan B. Mirviss |
Publisher | : Weatherhill, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780834803275 |
Download The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Surimono Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Surimono are Japanese woodblock prints issued in very limited editions for special occasions. Many served as elegant New Year greeting, and these prints combine embossing, gauffrage, hand-rubbed metallic pigments and materials such as lacquer and mother-of-pearl. Most surimono were commissioned by poetry clubs and are inscribed in calligraphy with whimsical or humorous poems composed by the club members. The Frank Lloyd Wright collection of surimono was recently discovered in the vaults of Taliesen West, and this book, in conjunction with a touring exhibition of Wright's surimono, presents the prints. It contains a catalogue of the prints in the collection, an essay on poetry found on the surimono and an index of poets.
Author | : Virginia Terry Boyd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Download Frank Lloyd Wright + the House Beautiful Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Alex Hook |
Publisher | : Taj Books |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781844060542 |
Download The Atlas of Frank Lloyd Wright Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When Frank Lloyd Wright died in 1959 at the venerable age of 91 he was the most famous architect in the United States. During his long career--over 70 years--he designed over a thousand buildings, almost all of them for clients in North America. Of these around half--532--were completed and most of these, 409 in total, still exist, 17 of them recognized by the American Institute of Architects to be primary examples of his architectural contribution to American culture. Of the 17, Fallingwater is frequently viewed as the greatest piece of architecture in American history.His prodigious output is all the more surprising when one considers how few of his projects reached completion in the first quarter of the 20th century. Much of the reason for this paucity of commissions was his lifestyle. Frank Lloyd Wright led a colorful life full of conflict and controversy, particularly in his personal affairs. He left his first wife and children for the wife of one of his clients. After she and her children had been hacked to death by their deranged cook, his next wife was a morphine addict. He would end his days with a Bosnian Serb aristocrat 33 years his younger.Frank Lloyd Wright thoroughly enjoyed being a celebrity, he loved making special appearances and giving interviews. At the time his self-promotion--and, during World War II his pacificism--made him as many enemies as admirers. But he was untroubled by self doubt, and today his character is irrelevant: his work speaks for itself. In spite of his very human weaknesses, his work helped give American architecture an identity of its own, free from the constraints of the Old World. No longer an imitation of European style, U.S. architecture evolved its unique style in the 20th century, and Wright played a key role in this.The Atlas of Frank Lloyd Wright examines a hundred of his finest buildings, state-by-state. From his earliest work in Chicago, most of the key buildings are covered including: Fallingwater, the Californian textile-block houses--Storer, Ennis, Barsndall and his Oak Park Home and Studio; both Jacobs houses, the Robie House and the Taliesin complex.
Author | : Diane Maddex |
Publisher | : Harry N. Abrams |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001-03-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780810982123 |
Download 50 Favorite Houses By Frank Lloyd Wright Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Wright believed that the home was the center of family life, of individual freedom, a place of repose. As this book shows, his ideal home took on an amazing variety of forms, but was always built using natural materials and colors, and was always a work of art. Included here are his Prairie houses; revolutionary designs in California built of concrete blocks; the famous Fallingwater; and Taliesin West, his home in the desert.
Author | : Vincent Scully (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Architects |
ISBN | : |
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A survey of Wright's vast and remarkably creative building production; the influence of Louis Sullivan, and some of the major innovations Wright brought to architecture.